Category: LeDrew

In my very first essay after The Book Closet relaunch, I did a Deep Dive into the Daredevil Root of Evil storyline, collected in the Daredevil Epic Collection: Root of Evil. In that essay I came to the conclusion that the majority of the Root of Evil storyline was thematic and that the visuals were…

This title brought about a strange collection of feelings for me. I would have liked to have written a “Look Deeper” post about it, but I may need to separate myself from it a little more before being able to do that. As of right now the dominant feeling this book has brought forth is……

This story not only has emotional weight and significance, it also pairs nicely with the short-story “The Killing Stroke” by Fabian Niceza in showing what happened to the members of Freedom Force that caused them to disband as the government’s super-team

Rogue & Gambit (2018) #1 by Kelly Thompson Rogue and Gambit wee my absolute two favorite heroes growing up. I there is an entire generation of people who learned to read in the early 90s for whom this was their first introduction to the idea of “tragic love,” the sort of love that’s doomed to…

Typhoid Mary as written by Ann Nocenti may be the most important character in all of modern comics: more than anything created by Stan Lee, Bob Kane, or Siegel & Shuster. The reason being that — as different and important as all those characters became — they were all cut from the same cloth (re:…

Maverick spun out of Wolverine-centric X-Men stories and was essentially a mercenary with ties to Wolverine’s past in general and Weapon X in specific. If that sounds familiar, it should: it could also describe Deadpool. In fact, the Maverick ongoing series started around the same time as the Deadpool ongoing series did.

There is a truly amazing book by Steve Vernon, author of Flash Virus and The Tatterdemon trilogy, for FREE today on Amazon. Here are the details: “After Sally Mae Webster phoned me up to tell me that my Korean War buddy Luther Webster had been shot and killed by the Bates brothers I knew that…

Ever since Frank Miller reinvented the character in the 70s, Daredevil has been an anomaly in mainstream comics: a character whose stories are more rules by theme than by plot. Some of the best Daredevil stories before the 1998 relaunch were adult not only in their subject matter but also in their storytelling methods, taking…

The Chris Powell incarnation of Darkhawk had a moderately successful run from 1991-1995 during the comics boom of Marvel Comics, when just about any title could make it to at least 50 issues and even the lowest-selling title sold in numbers that would make it the industry’s #1 Bestseller by a wide margin by today’s…

An amazing new release by Quarter Castle Publishing, an absolute steal on eBook right now for $2.99. Check it out here. The Halifax Explosion was the result of the SS Imo, a Norwegian vessel, colliding with the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship, in the Narrows of the Halifax Harbour on the morning of Thursday…